About

Skeleton Calcium refers to jokes about skeletons consuming calcium to make their bones strong. While originally appearing online during the summer of 2017, images referencing the chemical element saw a resurgence in early October 2018 in response to Moth Lamp and Spooktober memes.

Origin

On April 29th, 2017, Redditor Djasslord submitted a comic of the character Meme Man discussing calcium with a skeleton to /r/surrealmemes,^[4] in which Meme Man absorbs a skeleton's calcium while saying "succ" (shown below).

Spread

On May 1st, 2017, Redditor master_mikkel submitted an image macro featuring a picture of a skeleton captioned with the phrase "Have you experienced calcium?" to /r/surrealmemes,^[1] where it gathered more than 2,600 points (97% upvoted) and 74 comments prior to being archived (shown below).

On June 7th, the image was reposted by Redditor bloodylipservice to /r/dankmemes,^[2] where it accumulated upwards of 1,600 points (95% upvoted) and 40 comments before it was archived.

On October 3rd, 2018, Redditor jimmyolsenblues submitted a post asking "What is up with all the Calcium posts?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[3] That day, Redditor UnitedMemesOfAmerica posted a Skeleton Calcium-themed Because Your Mother Loves Roses meme to /r/dankmemes^[6] (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Redditor Oluf0610 submitted a photograph of a horse skeleton captioned with a calcium reference to /r/dankmemes^[5] (shown below, right).

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